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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Beauty and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are physic-theological arguments?
(a) Arguments against the existence of God.
(b) Arguments from design.
(c) Cosmological arguments.
(d) Ontological arguments.

2. For Hume to believe something, what did he need?
(a) Reason.
(b) Infallible belief.
(c) Inferential evidence.
(d) Empirical evidence.

3. What did Kant's objective argument concern?
(a) The existence of the self outside the mind.
(b) The existence of self-consciousness.
(c) The content of the self.
(d) The content of synthetic a priori knowledge.

4. What did Kant's subjective argument concern?
(a) Explaining the proof that the self exists.
(b) Proving that the self is a property.
(c) Proving that the self is a substance.
(d) Explaining the faculties of understanding the self.

5. Where was David Hume from?
(a) Ireland.
(b) France.
(c) Scotland.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?

2. What did Descartes argue was the first and most certain piece of knowledge?

3. Which of the following statements about Kant is true?

4. Unlike Descartes, what was Kant unwilling to draw the conclusion that he was?

5. What type of judgment is beauty?

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